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Betcha didn't know the oldest fortified military post in the country is right around the corner. Fort Independence has been a lookout point since 1634--Edgar Allen Poe even served army time there in 1827. Visit Castle Island Park to get in touch with some history, or join the hordes of joggers and walkers on the scenic paths. And if that fishing pole you brought with you to school is gathering just too much dust, check out Castle Island's 250-foot fishing pier. Maybe Dining Services will cook your catch. Maybe not. But it's worth...
...nearly 100 paintings, pastels and prints at the MFA trace Cassatt's development from her early, more academic style into her Impressionistic experimentation. The second gallery, for example, contains several portraits of women and men in opera boxes. Unlike Edgar Degas's well-known behind-the-scenes pictures of ballerinas, Cassatt concentrates on the audience...
...enough to convince many who had watched him over the years that the stories were substantially true. Only Mrs. Clinton seemed more angry than broken, appalled by the very notion of a sting operation against a President, reminding people how offended everyone had been to learn about J. Edgar Hoover's wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. and spreading stories about his sex life. Wasn't Starr doing the same kind of thing to the President...
...files: raw and refined. Raw files, which should be taken with a fresh acidic wine such as Muscadet or Sancerre, contain the most salacious and lewd rumors gleaned from the most untrustworthy and reprehensible scum on earth. Their original function was to provide amusing bedtime reading for J. Edgar Hoover (which is why he kept them in the bureau). Today they enable the FBI to keep U.S. crime statistics low by threatening to give the media the raw files of anyone even thinking about going...
When he started taking photographs regularly, in 1895, Edgar Degas was 61 and long established as one of the great French painters. But his disposition, sober at best, was decaying into melancholy and the poisons of anti-Semitism. His eyes were failing too. In this show, which travels next to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also...